On Saturday 04 March 2006 11:55 am, Cory Papenfuss wrote: snip > > There is one vendor that is at least a little interested in this market > > segment but they appear to have concerns that need to be resolved before > > any progress will be made. The major issue is that the less expensive > > devices that we are talking about are at least in part implemented in > > software. This is significantly differnet from devices like the > > Spectrolino where everything is implemented in the hardware. As a > > result the vendor(s) need to figure out how to make that software (the > > drivers or interface library) available to Linux/Unix/BSD users without > > exposing implementation details. This is not a simple or inexpensive > > task and there are a lot of issues that they need to deal with to make > > this possible. In the end I think this can be resolved but the vendors > > are used to how things work for the Windows market place and are having a > > very hard time understanding how to deal with the OSS world. > > Yeah, it's a typical problem. I have yet to see a *good* > transition to OSS from any company/product like that. I'd hate to see it > go the nvidia binary-only route. That just leads to trouble.
Unfortunately I think that this is about the best that we can hope for at this point from any of these vendors. I am actively working with one of these vendors and it has been a struggle to get anywhere at all. At best the process has made a few baby steps. But at least they are still taking with me. I will be fairly happy if I can move this far enough along that this vendor is doing as good of a job as nVidia is with their drivers. Actually the color meter/spectrophotometer device drivers are much simpler than a graphics card driver, for example these are not kernel modules like the video card drivers, so it should actually be easier for them to provide reasonably good binary drivers. As a side note I found out today that GretagMacbeth has a new color meter called the Huey that has a list price of $89 which includes the software. I saw it on one web site for $69. So it looks like these devices will continue to get more affordable. Hal ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
